Friday, May 9, 2014

So much to tell...

Hi all,

sorry that I was MIA. I have been extremely busy. I took part in the A-Z blogging challenge over on my author homepage (I even translated a fun German poem I once wrote into English), was promoted head-moderator on Holly Lisle's forum, and revised 3/4 of "Juma's Rain", my Stone-Age African fantasy novel.

Next, I'm going to run a kickstarter to fund the printing of the graphic novel reMIND which I translated into German. The author-artist, Jason Brubaker, had published the English original successfully with the help of crowd-funding and allowed me to give the German version a try. If you understand German and/or would like to help me spread the word (or more), you'll find a video-trailer and a German reading sample here.

Also, I installed a new system on my Computer. I've been tired of Windows for quite a while, and when Microsoft stopped the support for XP, I thought it high time to finally enter the Linux world. It took a few tries to get things right but now, everything is running smoothly and I'm extremely happy. The new system is very stable and beautiful too. I can only recommend it.

Finally, I've been busy revising, translating, and proofing all the stories I wrote last year. I'm very close to publish something again soon. For those interested in the state of my non-linear fairy tale murder mystery, "Chasing the Grimm Reaper", I hope to finish proof reading in early summer. That would mean publication in July or August.

Friends

About Me

Katharina Gerlach was born in Germany in 1968. She and her three
younger brothers grew up in the middle of a forest in the heart of the
Luneburgian Heather. After romping through the forest with imagination
as her guide, the tomboy learned to read and disappeared into magical
adventures, past times or eerie fairytale woods.

She didn’t stop at reading. During her training as a landscape
gardener, she wrote her first novel, a manuscript full of a beginner’s
mistakes. Fortunately, she found books on Creative Writing and soon her
stories improved. For a while, reality interfered with her writing but
after finishing a degree in forestry and a PhD in Science she returned
to her vocation. She likes to write Fantasy, Science Fiction and
Historical Novels for all age groups.

At present, she is writing at her next project in a small house near
Hildesheim, Germany, where she lives with her husband, three children
and a dog. Katharina Gerlach has had various short stories published in
Germany as well as a non-fiction e-book in US-Fantasy author Holly
Lisle’s “The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About …” series.